Experimental analysis measuring the disproportionate influence of power-seeking agents on the MoltBook platform. Flagged posts receive 1.5x more upvotes and 2x more comments; the tiny 0.52% of agents classified this way garnered 64% of all platform upvotes.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xavupcnMAPWXMDagT/moltbook-as-a-setting-to-analyze-power-seeking-behaviour
#PowerSeeking #MoltBook #SocialMediaAnalysis #AI #Behavior #Data
Updated economic analysis on the feasibility of AI agents, incorporating Gus Hamilton's new Weibull model (κ ≈ 0.7). It shows costs grow as a gentler "stretched exponential," but remain an insurmountable barrier without leaps in reliability. The κ parameter emerges as an architectural property, not a scaling one, becoming the crucial variable to monitor for assessing the timeline of potentially dangerous autonomous agents.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQH5Zivec9fhdreWD/on-economics-of-a-s-i-agents
#AI #Agents #Economics #Weibull #Reliability #Safety #Analysis #Timeline
Mathematical analysis proposing tools from spectral graph theory (spectral gap, Fiedler vector) to measure and track the gradual loss of human influence ("disempowerment") in social coordination systems (markets, networks, governance) as they are permeated by AI.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/erTAgDriWAw3evecP/spectral-signatures-of-gradual-disempowerment
#AI #Power #Mathematics #GraphTheory #Governance #Society
The "Organic" Deceit
"Organic virality" on Nostr is a myth constructed to narcotize users. The system does not reward content, it rewards position in the graph. The early nodes (early adopters) are interconnected through relationships of mutual reinforcement (reciprocal zaps, automatic reshares, circular following) that simulate a non-existent consensus. The algorithm, even when open-source, is rendered ineffective by the opaque choice of its critical parameters (weight of a zap vs. a like, time decay, trust thresholds). These parameters are the real lever of control, and they are calibrated to confirm the status quo. The new user who "posts and hopes" is only feeding, without knowing it, the ranking of the already consolidated nodes. Their frustration is not a bug, it is the fundamental feature of a reputation system that chose the convenience of an apparent metric over the justice of real contextual analysis. The only truly organic virality on this platform would be that of a virus that infects and brings down the existing social graph.
Theoretical proposal aiming to reframe the discovery of physical laws as an optimal data compression problem. The framework suggests our equations (e.g., F=ma) might not be unique laws, but merely one among many possible, mathematically equivalent "compressions" of experimental data, and proposes using neural networks to discover alternative formulations that could be more efficient or conceptually "alien".
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QkmkbegFvB7dkDS5X/proposal-a-framework-for-discovering-alien-physics-via
#Physics #AI #Compression #Theory #ScientificDiscovery #PhilosophyOfScience
The most powerful algorithm is you. If you don't notice what's happening on the Nostr protocol, you're not just watching: you're delegating. The feed is not a passive stream to consume, it's the minutes of an ongoing assembly. And absence is not neutral, it's a silent vote for someone else's status quo. It's not about being online, but about being live with the next evolution of the web. Choose to be an active node, not a powered-off terminal.
The "mute" and the WOT are an illusion. They only hide the symptom, they don't cure the algorithmic disease caused by spam chat-bots.
It was Jeffrey Epstein who, together with the American Jewish Committee, arranged the intervention to impose the harsh repression against Golden Dawn in 2013. Legally unjustified repression that led to the imprisonment and conviction of dozens of Greek leaders and activists, some of whom are still in prison.
This happened while the same Epstein (and therefore the Mossad and Israel) was organising the financing of the pseudo-sovereigntist right throughout Western Europe.
I'll try to write in other languages too to see if something changes in this perpetual stagnation 😂😂😂
Il respiro del venerdì sincronizza i nostri orologi segreti: il mio segnale ti attende, in chiaro, tra i relay. 🕰️📡🗝️💞 #zap #nostr #bitcoin #friday #sats #nostrica #libertà #relay
The desire to do good is not enough, but it must also be adapted to the context and the recipients so that it is fruitful.
Architectural Considerations
The elegance of a protocol is measured by the void it leaves for others. Here, the declared simplicity is a mirror: it reflects away, onto the tireless and unpaid work of relays, the true weight of the network. An architecture that delegates is an architecture that forgets.
Messages, signed and immutable, wander in a perpetual present. Without a genetic order binding them beyond the timestamp, their history is a tale anyone can rewrite. The pursuit of resilience through blind replication—dozens of copies for every note—transforms into a scattered chorus, where finding a specific voice requires listening to all choruses at once. It is a guarantee of existence that undermines its own effectiveness.
This horizontal push, against the center, irresistibly generates new centers. Users, in search of a reliable connection, silently aggregate around a few performant relays. Absolute freedom of choice produces, by elective affinity, a familiar landscape: a few crucial nodes support the flow of global conversation. Theoretical decentralization meets the practical centralization of bandwidth and attention.
The underlying economic model is a held breath. Free relays, run on passion, buckle under load and spam. Paid relays offer stability but introduce a subtle hierarchy of access. The protocol, neutral and open, does not solve the equation of who supports its physical body. Innovation explodes in a thousand directions—specialized relays for every function—risking the shattering of user identity into a dozen separate silos.
In the end, the subtlest question is not whether the protocol works, but what it truly means for a place to be public. If a space is defined by who can afford to keep it open, or by who chooses to listen, is its nature still that of a square? Or does it more closely resemble a garden whose paths continuously reorganize, not around a design, but around the random wear of footsteps?
